The fix that I suggested be tried (the removal of the make -j2 in the ebuild) did not work. Someone tried compiling an disntalling the vanilla xfree srcs (not via ebuild) and it worked ok.

on that note I hve taken a look at any and all patches being applied to the ppc ebuild of xfree and can't see what would cause this to stop working....I think that someone with a little more knowedge of xfree should look at those patches and maybe they can figure out what is wrong.

Does anyone know if these patches are strictly needed for ppc? I have always used vanilla src from xfree86.org with no issues. If the patches can be masked in the ppc ebuild and tested this would be great.

I tried commenting out the patches in the ebuild (so they didn't get applied). However that didn't fix the scroll up issue. So i guess it must be something within the xfree sources or the config options that is conflicting._________________________________________________________
Olivier Reisch doctomoe@gentoo.org
Gentoo/PPC Developer
http://www.gentoo.org
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I just put a fixed ebuild (r10) in cvs. It's masked for now, just to be safe (don't want to upset the x86 people). Feel free to unmask it and try it out (i.e. comment out the relevant line in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask).

Note: This version still has the nice patches, but it may not pick up all the optimisations in make.conf (still checking). I don't see any difference in performance here, but it could be an issue for some.

hmm, sorry to intrude. I'm not currently a ppc user, my mac broke
but anyway on my x86 machine the mouse scroll up button is broken,
very annoying. I just installed gentoo 1.3a_test yesterday, with the default xfree 4.2.0-r12. did r12 inheret r10' patches?